Hey blue haired mighty clawfinger dude, I just want to ask you how long hair and grappling go together... I had a little pony tail because I wanted to make a plaint and copy Larn's look from the epic cartoon Fire and ice (hope you know it, probably it's a bit too much like Lord of the rings (same producer) but kicks ass anyways with gore and tits & all). Attachment 13876

...back on track, it annoyed the **** out of me and everyone thought I'm Segal wannabe (this was the most tiresome to tolerate). But at grappling virtually everyone who proceeded to throw me pulled my hair and it wasn't a bit pleasant being pressed on the ground with it, so I gave up and cut it off. How do you deal with this? I doubt I'm gonna try again, but I would appreciate the answer. Have a nice training!

Allow me to answer your question with another badass picture of myself:
Basically, the process goes like this:
Tie back hair into tail. Braid tail. Flip braid onto top of head. Secure into place with wrestling headgear.
During practice, it has be adjusted periodically - enough rolling around and the braid gets knocked loose of the straps of the head gear - but it goes a long, long way to reconcile long hair and grappling.
For MMA fights and comps where headgear is not allowed, I usually go with a french braid and double up the tail.

The fool thinks himself immortal,
If he hold back from battle;
But old age will grant him no truce,
Even if spears spare him.

Basically, the process goes like this:
Tie back hair into tail. Braid tail. Flip braid onto top of head. Secure into place with wrestling headgear.
During practice, it has be adjusted periodically - enough rolling around and the braid gets knocked loose of the straps of the head gear - but it goes a long, long way to reconcile long hair and grappling.
For MMA fights and comps where headgear is not allowed, I usually go with a french braid and double up the tail.

Allow me to answer your question with another badass picture of myself:
Basically, the process goes like this:
Tie back hair into tail. Braid tail. Flip braid onto top of head. Secure into place with wrestling headgear.
During practice, it has be adjusted periodically - enough rolling around and the braid gets knocked loose of the straps of the head gear - but it goes a long, long way to reconcile long hair and grappling.
For MMA fights and comps where headgear is not allowed, I usually go with a french braid and double up the tail.

But, but, but... have you seen the cartoon? (thanks for the awesome answer, and all, but I'm still curious :EWBTE2:

It's so awesome to have a spear in the middle of the face. Just plate it and stick it in t3h opponent when you land on him. Learned that trick from a super secret ninja sensei years ago (have a big nose too - enough advanced organ to sniff when the women I'm talking with is getting horny or.... I don't want to talk about it... ). I give awesome blowjobs also, but once I forgot to take off the plate and the poor bitch ended up castrated.

It's so awesome to have a spear in the middle of the face. Just plate it and stick it in t3h opponent when you land on him. Learned that trick from a super secret ninja sensei years ago (have a big nose too - enough advanced organ to sniff when the women I'm talking with is getting horny or.... I don't want to talk about it... ).

So fun story.
Over the past couple months, I let the blue dye fade out of my hair so I could eventually bleach it and re-dye it, getting a more vivid color this time.
I met up with a different hairdresser friend of mine this weekend for the bleaching phase. I figured I would go Targaryen blond for a while, then go purple or turqoise or some other crazy ****.
So we got the bleach, queued up some netflix (turns out, bleaching two feet of hair takes a while), and go to work.
TURNS OUT, not all of the blue dye had washed out. It was gone from my scalp, and gone from the ends, but somehow the *middle* of my hair still had a fair amount. It hadn't been visible as my hair had reverted to it's natural color, but with the bleach lightening it, it became quite quite clear.
So I now have hair that goes from platinum blond to sea green and back to platinum. It's.... kinda wierd, really. I think I'll be re-dying it sooner rather than later.

The fool thinks himself immortal,
If he hold back from battle;
But old age will grant him no truce,
Even if spears spare him.